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Jiang Fang (Zizheng)
Tang Dynasty scholar-official and author (c. 792–835 CE), created 'The Story of Huo Xiaoyu', a tragic pinnacle of classical romantic betrayal and spiritual retribution.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Jiang Zizheng · Secretariat Jiang
Jiang Fang (c. 792–835 CE) was a Hanlin Academician and master of Tang chuanqi fiction. His magnum opus 'The Story of Huo Xiaoyu' (Huo Xiaoyu Zhuan) dramatizes the tragic betrayal of courtesan Huo Xiaoyu by scholar Li Yi, praised across Chinese literary history as the foremost romantic tragedy of the Tang period.
Life and times
Dates c. 792–835 CE